[Casper] Migration

[Jason Halvorson]

We migrated from a PowerMac G5 to a Xserve with JAMF 5.1.  Ditto to what
Dustin mentioned:
³The casper piece went quickly and smoothly.   Too smoothly in fact, I spent
the next couple days digging for issues that I never found.  Also out of
paranoia we took screenshots of all of our settings and printed a list of
all of our policies just in case something went wrong we¹d at least know
what was set before hand to redo it.²

Jason




From: "Dorey, Dustin" <Dustin.Dorey at district196.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:45:42 -0500
To: "Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>, Casper List
<casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Casper] Migration

Though we haven¹t exactly ³migrated² from one server to a different one, we
have backed up all data and the JSS and wiped current servers for a fresh
install.    And in our experiences here if you make sure and back everything
up properly and per JAMF¹s instruction you should have no issues.   What
took us the longest was zeroing the drives and re-installing the OS.   The
casper piece went quickly and smoothly.   Too smoothly in fact, I spent the
next couple days digging for issues that I never found.  Also out of
paranoia we took screenshots of all of our settings and printed a list of
all of our policies just in case something went wrong we¹d at least know
what was set before hand to redo it.   I¹m pretty sure we never looked at
them.
 
Hopefully your experience goes as well.   Good luck!
-Dusty-
 
Dustin  Dorey
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
Independant School District 196
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools
dustin.dorey at district196.org
651|423|7971
 
 
 

From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com
[mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Nichols, Jared
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:16 AM
To: Casper List
Subject: [Casper] Migration
 
Hi-

I¹ve gotten a brandy new Xserve in house (oh she¹s a beast) and will be
planning server migration soon.  I¹ve read through the migration bit in the
documentation and it seems straightforward enough, though I have two
questions:
1. Is there anything ³out of the ordinary² that people ran into during a
migration that they weren¹t expecting?
2. I currently employ a two server strategy ­ one for the JSS, one for the
SUS ­ but the new server is certainly beefy enough to do double duty.
Ideally, I¹d like to go ³big bang² and get it all done in one fell swoop,
reassigning everyone¹s SUS to the new JSS.  Advisable?  Pros/Cons?

FYI, the JSS uses DNS rather than direct IP so cutover is a breeze.

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436 


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